> Also, it's broken, broken, broken on Plan 9

but could you describe what antisocial behavior it exhibits and how one
could reproduce this behavior?  i have never used to-disk paging on plan 9,
so i don't know.

> and nobody wants to fix it.

this has been a good discussion so far.  let's not go off in a bad direction. 

> The upside to this is that we can just say how we don't want it anyway,
> there's no conceivable reason anyone would want swap,  and operating 
> systems with working swap suck ;)

not sure how to parse this.  is there a particular case where you need to-disk
paging?  i don't see the use of to-disk paging.  perhaps my vision is limited.

in the one case where i might find it useful  -- in embedded systems, there's
typically more ram than persistant storage, so paging to "disk" makes no sense.

- erik

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